Dear John,
Tucker Carlson, the most-watched cable news host, was recently fired from Fox News.1 It’s reported that owners Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch claim their choice was a “business decision,” which is short for Tucker Carlson was seen as a threat to their future profits.2
As a corporation, Fox News is driven by its profits, and that’s what we are coming for. With Fox's reputation on the line, this moment holds a unique opportunity to fundamentally challenge Fox News' entire business model by severely harming its bottom line.
While Carlson’s ouster is good news, it doesn’t change the fact that Fox News is rotten to the core. Will you challenge Fox's destructive power by demanding corporate advertisers boycott Fox News? Every dollar spent on advertising to Fox "News" viewers funds the dangerous rhetoric and conspiracies that they blast on air. It’s time for corporations to stop funding Fox News' dangerous lies.
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AT&T, General Motors, and Subway are among the dwindling list of companies who are still running major advertising campaigns on Fox News. In fact, AT&T recently resumed advertising on Fox News, even while the company's dirty laundry was being aired in public.3 In just a couple of weeks, these corporate advertisers will likely be deciding how much money they want to spend advertising their products on Fox News for the coming year.4 AT&T, General Motors, and Subway have a choice: either stop future advertising deals with Fox News or to continue funding the hate and lies that undermine our democracy.
Demand that AT&T, General Motors, and Subway stop advertising on Fox "News." They are enabling Fox's lies and damaging our nation through their support of this right-wing propaganda network!
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MoveOn members have a long history of confronting Fox's lies, white supremacy, and reckless endangerment of our democracy—from forcing advertisers to drop Bill O'Reilly to getting the Democratic Party to stop hosting presidential primary debates on the network. Together, let’s continue this work by challenging a major source of funding that allows Fox to prop up this disinformation.
This starts by pushing corporations to stop funding Fox through new advertising deals. Sign and share the petition to demand accountability now!
Thanks for all you do.
–MoveOn
Sources:
1. "Tucker Carlson’s vulgar language in texts contributed to Fox News firing – report," The Guardian, April 26, 2023 https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/apr/26/tucker-carlson-fired-text-message-fox-executive
2. "On Eve of Trial, Discovery of Carlson Texts Set Off Crisis Atop Fox," The New York Times, April 26, 2023 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/26/business/media/tucker-carlson-dominion-fox-news.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
3. "AT&T starts running ads on Fox News amid Dominion mess and DirecTV-Newsmax feud," Media Matters, March 16, 2023 https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/att-starts-running-ads-fox-news-amid-dominion-mess-and-directv-newsmax-feud
4. "2023 Upfronts Schedule Set as Fox Plans In-Person Presentation at the Manhattan Center," February 23, 2023, The Hollywood Reporter https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/2023-upfronts-schedule-set-dates-times-1235332630/
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